3 Strengthen limp hands.Steady weak knees.
4 Tell those who are terrified,“Be brave; don’t be afraid.Your God will come with vengeance, with divine revenge.He will come and rescue you.”
5 Then the eyes of the blind will be opened,and the ears of the deaf will be unplugged.
6 Then those who are lame will leap like deer,and those who cannot speak will shout for joy.Water will gush out into the desert,and streams will gush out into the wilderness.
7 Then the hot sand will become a pool,and dry ground will have springs.Grass will become cattails and rushesin the home of jackals.
8 A highway will be there, a roadway.It will be called the Holy Road.Sinners won’t travel on it.It will be for those who walk on it.Godless fools won’t wander ⌊onto it⌋.
9 Lions won’t be there.Wild animals won’t go on it.They won’t be found there.But the people reclaimed ⌊by the Lord⌋ will walk ⌊on it⌋.